Ritt Deitz w/ The Delta Jets

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Friday, November 5, 2004

Ritt\'s songs are rough and smooth at the same time, acoustic roots rock
with just enough mountain music in it to remind you he is from Kentucky.
He is joined by his trio, musicians he has played, recorded, and
consorted with over the last fifteen years. They are an authentic,
well-honed piece of work.

The Delta Jets (from Green Bay) will get hold of you and pull you in. Dale Anderson plays an assortment of guitars and evokes that Muddy Waters thang with a mix of originals and old time blues standards. Drummer Mark Riggenbach kicks a steady back-beat that gets the juke joint rockin. This is no ordinary blues group, this is a blues exorcism.

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